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Doubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance / Michelle Zerba.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) BD215 .Z47 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zerba, Michelle, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Belief and doubt--History.
- Belief and doubt.
- Skepticism--History.
- Skepticism.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 260 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- "Farewell the tranquil mind": tragic doubt in Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello
- Comic skepticism and polytropic strategies in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As you like it
- Skepticism, politics, and rhetoric in the works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781107024656
- 110702465X
- OCLC:
- 769430067
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